Exposure to automation contributes to an increase in support for the radical right, a new study has found.
Published by PNAS, the study titled “ Individual Vulnerability to Industrial Robot Adoption Increases Support for the Radical Right ” sheds light on how robotic adoption is a key driver behind the success of right-wing populist and nationalist parties in 13 European countries between late 1990s and 2016.
“Economic processes such as globalization and technological change create aggregate welfare gains, but with winners and losers. Such distributional consequences, through the ensuing perceived economic distress, are then politically consequential,” argue the study’s authors Massimo […]
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